Operator Overloading - C++

Question

class sock  {
public:
    SOCKET m_hSock;
.....
//Other functons...contructors, destructors
.....
    operator SOCKET()
        { return m_hSock;}

}

In above coscket class code, what operator it is overloading?

Answer 1

This is known as the type cast operator. Operators of the form;

operator Type()

where Type is the desired type, are generally known as cast operators and can be used in casting operations, such as static_cast<Type>(obj)